Kindergarten through first grade may be a cake walk, but third grade? Ask any elementary schooler, and that's when things start to get legit. Luckily, an 8-year-old from Staten Island, New York has ...

Mounting evidence supports an academic strategy known as acceleration, in which students who are behind are challenged with grade-level material while getting help with missing skills or knowledge.

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade level by ...